Tadcaster viaduct and the Wharfe

Three and a third miles round the brewery town and its river, out along the Wharfe to the great eleven-arch viaduct that was built for a railway that never came and now carries only walkers, then back over the fields; forty metres of ascent and about an hour and a half. Start on Bridge Street in the centre where there is free town parking, and Tadcaster is well served by the 843 and 174 buses from York and Leeds. The viaduct deck is a broad firm surface with parapets, the riverside path gives dogs a proper swim in the Wharfe from shelving gravel, and the town section is all pavement so leads on there; the meadow paths flood when the Wharfe comes up, and it comes up fast, so check the level before you commit.